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Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'classNameId'

Issue During an upgrade process, you might encounter an issue where the following error occurs: ERROR [main][BatchingBatch:134] HHH000315: Exception executing batch [java.sql.BatchUpdateException: Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'classNameId', table 'DB_NAME.dbo.ClassName_';...

StackOverflowError related to locales during upgrade

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Issue You might encounter an issue where you receive a StackOverflowError during your upgrade process, such as this: ERROR [main][ROOT:56] bundle com.liferay.portal.verify.extender:7.0.24...

Should LDAP verify that user images exist in the Document Library?

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Issue Some user images are missing from my Document Library, but they still have references in the IMAGE table in the database. As a result, LDAP doesn't re-import the user images during an LDAP import. Should LDAP verify that references in the IMAGE table refer to actual images in the...

ERROR: aggregate functions are not allowed in UPDATE Position: 54 when upgrading a PostgreSQL database

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Issue During the upgrade progress to 7.4 a fatal error occurs in process com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_4_x.UpgradeCompanyId: INFO [main][UpgradeProcess:145] Failed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.upgrade.v7_4_x.UpgradeCompanyId in 76 ms INFO [main][PortalUpgradeProcess:190] Failed...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.journal.service

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Issue During your upgrade process, you might encounter an error during the com.liferay.journal.internal.upgrade.v1_1_0.DocumentLibraryTypeContentUpgradeProcess step: Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.xml.DocumentException: Error on line 12 of document : The reference to entity "S"...

Does the Admin user have to be active to upgrade Liferay?

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Issue We are going to upgrade our Liferay portal and would like to know if there is any problem if the Admin user is inactive. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution To perform the Liferay upgrade it is not necessary for the user with the Administrator role to be active. Additional...

Failed upgrade process com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.internal.upgrade.v1_1_2.DynamicDataMappingUpgradeProcess

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Issue During your upgrade process, you might encounter an error where the upgrade step for module com.liferay.dynamic.data.mapping.service fails due to a NullPointerException: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at...

Update database indexes

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Issue You might face a requirement where you need to update your database indexes, such as during an upgrade process or a database migration process Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution Up until Liferay DXP 7.3: setting the database.indexes.update.on.startup=true property in the...

Error updating time zone definition - n.f.ical4j.model.TimeZoneUpdater

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Issue The following logging error is observed on a regular basis: n.f.ical4j.model.TimeZoneUpdater - Error updating timezone definition java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out (Connection timed out) How can this Liferay server-side request be disabled? Environment DXP 7.0+...

"Portlet must not be null" error during upgrade

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Issue You might encounter an issue where you face an error during upgrade such as follows: 2023-03-29 08:09:14.891 ERROR [Framework Event Dispatcher: Equinox Container: 6a56b6f1-2524-4207-a9fb-dfe9b3dab41e][Framework:56] FrameworkEvent ERROR java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Portlet...

Unable to sync callable error during upgrade

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Issue You might encounter the following error during your upgrade attempt: ERROR [main][DependencyManagerSyncImpl:54] Unable to sync callable java.lang.NullPointerException: null at...

Installing hotfix on weblogic server

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Issue How to install the hotfix on weblogic server Environment Liferay DXP 7.0 - 7.4 Resolution Although this documentation explains Setting Up the Patching Tool in Weblogic, here are the easy steps Check theliferay.homefromportal-setup-wizard.propertiesand unzip the latest patching tool...

Illegal mix of collations during upgrade process

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Issue You might encounter the following error or similar during the upgrade process if your database's collation differs from the collation of the tables: com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: java.sql.SQLException: Illegal mix of collations (utf8mb4_general_ci,IMPLICIT)...

Is there a Headless API to retrieve a User Profile Image?

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Issue I would like to retrieve a user profile image via Headless API. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution Currently, there is no Headless API for retrieving User Profile Images. Additional Information A feature request was opened at LPS-166212. If this feature is selected for development by...

Users can't see all of their own roles when they make a my-user-account headless API call

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Issue When users make a my-user-account headless API call, most of their roles are listed in the response, but their custom regular roles are missing. If an administrator makes the headless API call, all of their roles are listed. Environment Liferay 7.4 Resolution When new roles are...

Can't change user's password: Passwords may not be changed under the current password policy.

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Issue As an administrator, when trying to change a user's password the message "Error: Passwords may not be changed under the current password policy" is shown. Under certain circumstances the message is NOT shown, but the passwords cannot be changed regardless. Environment Liferay DXP...

Starting nodes concurrently can lead to incorrect module upgrades

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Issue Module functionality seems to fail after moving to a newer fixpack. After executing a system:check unsatisfied dependencies like the following appear: Component with ID 58 is unavailable due to missing required dependencies: service dependency...

Log4j warnings after upgrading to Fix Pack 15

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Issue After upgrading Liferay DXP 7.2 to Fix Pack 15, the following warnings and error are printed in the logs on startup: log4j:WARN Continuable parsing error 3 and column 30 log4j:WARN Document root element "Configuration", must match DOCTYPE root "null". log4j:WARN Continuable parsing...

Cannot start up server after applying a new patch

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Issue After installing a new fix pack / hotfix, the portal is not starting up, even though the temporary folders have been deleted. 06-Dec-2021 13:15:32.439 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener...

Known Issue: "PermissionChecker not initialized" errors are observed and no pages are rendered following upgrade to 7.3

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Issue After upgrading from 7.0 to 7.3, when we start up our bundle for the first time the site does not render any pages (other than to show "powered by" on the home page) and the following error can be observed in the logs: Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException:...

How to get the groups associated to organizations using JSON Web Services

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Issue There is no method available in the JSON Web Services API to obtain the groups (i.e. sites) associated to organizations. Is there a way to get them? Environment Liferay DXP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 Resolution There are two auxiliary methods available in the JSON WS API than can be...

Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.portal.scheduler.quartz

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Issue During our upgrade process we are facing the following error: INFO - Failed upgrade process com.liferay.portal.scheduler.quartz.internal.upgrade.v1_0_1.QuartzUpgradeProcess in 1 ms ERROR - Failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.portal.scheduler.quartz...

Accessing a site page from a different virtual host

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Issue When there are 2 or more sites for example Site1 and Site2. Site1 is mapped to the friendly URL "site1" and Site2 is mapped to "site2". They both have virtual hosts site1.com and site2.com. The sites can be reached through localhost:8080/web/site1 or localhost:8080/web/site2 as...

Allowing non-admin users to move between sites with minimal permissions.

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Issue Users who are assigned to multiple sites without admin permissions are not able to switch between sites. Environment DXP 7.4 Resolution By defining and assigning a new Regular role with "Access in Control Panel" and "View" permissions for sites, you can grant non-admin users...

Guest User cannot upload File in Form - An unexpected error occurred

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Issue We have a Form with an Upload field where authenticated users can upload files but Guests cannot. All permissions are provided for Guest user. When the user selects the file to upload, an error message appears immediately: "An unexpected error occurred while uploading your file."...

Is it possible to manage resources per instance in Liferay?

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Issue You have a Liferay server and several virtual instances, and want to know if it’s possible to configure resources for each virtual instance. Environment DXP 7.2+ Resolution Unfortunately handling resources for each instance is not possible, in terms of memory, disk space and JVM...

user_ .modifiedDate table changes upon User Login

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Issue When a user logs in, Liferay is changing the user_ .modifiedDate value in the database table. Environment Liferay 7.4 Resolution The behavior where user_ .modifiedDate field is modified upon User Login has been determined to be Intended Behavior. This includes when a user's...

Liferay userGroup view permission not working

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Issue Post assigning VIEW permission of 'UserGroup' to a role, assigned users are able to perform all the operations on UserGroup, i.e. there is no restriction. Steps to reproduce: Create a custom regular role, with the permissions attached in the screenshot. Create a new user (say...

Getting Error 'java.io.IOException: Unable to include JSP'

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Issue User has encountered similar error post installation of a liferay hotfix: ERROR [https-jsse-nio-0.0.0.0-8443-exec-29][DynamicIncludeUtil:81] java.io.IOException: Unable to include JSP /html/portal/dynamic_include/view.jsp java.io.IOException: Unable to include JSP...

Guest users get a 200 OK response when calling URL

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Issue When guest users call http://<server>:<port>/manage, they get a 200 OK response. Steps: Start a vanilla Liferay DXP server Log in Go to the Personal Menu, click the user's avatar Log out Go to http://localhost:8080/manage Expected Behavior: HTTP 4xx Error Observed Behavior: HTTP...

Who added user ddm_form_default_user_screen_name in Liferay?

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Issue We found the user ddm_form_default_user_screen_name in our Liferay Portal. Could it be a security attack? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Resolution The user with name ddm_form_default_user_screen_name is an internal user automatically created by Liferay. When there is a page that...

How to resolve duplicate Anonymous Users

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Issue My upgrade failed with the following error: failed upgrade process for module com.liferay.user.associated.data.web com.liferay.portal.kernel.upgrade.UpgradeException: com.liferay.portal.configuration.persistence.listener.ConfigurationModelListenerException: The listener...

Restricting impersonation to allow only a single users impersonation at a time

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Issue An Impersonator should be able to impersonate only one user at a time. Currently, Liferay supports multiple users to be impersonated, at the same time in the same browser. We tried to find any properties which can restrict the impersonation to only one user at a time. Can you...

Large number of records on the SamlSpSession table

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Issue There are a large number of records on the SamlSpSession table, which is causing issues with my upgrade. Environment Portal 6.2 DXP 7.2 All DXP versions Resolution Extra records can be removed using the attached groovy script (this script has been verified on Portal 6.2 and DXP...

Email are not sent from Liferay when Office365 is used as the server

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Issue Emails are not sent out from Liferay In the log, we see the following error: liferay[liferay-7] [dxp] ERROR [liferay/mail-6][MailEngine:74] Unable to send message: 535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, the request did not meet the criteria to be authenticated successfully....

Need to create a role for accessing Server Administration

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Issue User needs to create a custom role and add permissions to access Server Administration Environment Liferay DXP 7.0+ Resolution There are no options provided under System to add these permissions. Only an Administrator role user would be able to access these portlets. There is a...

User can see more Organisations

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Issue We have a problem the User, who has access and rights to selected organizations, can see all organizations when updating user info. Reproduction steps: Customer main user opens Users and Organizations Portlet Selects Organization Selects user and clicks Edit (step3.png) Select...

Can SAML be used to send an attribute that can be used to assign site roles?

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Issue Currently, SAML is not designed to be utilized to send an attribute that can be used to assign site roles. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution This is an ongoing task, LPD-6336, for Liferay. Liferay is planning on implementing a form of this in the future but this will be...

How to remove languages in Instance Settings?

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Issue How can a user remove languages in Instance Settings? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Start up a vanilla bundle without any specific language settings. Go to Control Panel > Instance Settings > Localization. Make sure all languages are available. Stop the...

How to get a list of portal Users and what Roles are assigned to them?

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Issue I would like to get a list of Liferay portal users and what roles are assigned to them. Environment Liferay DXP 7.2+ Resolution Please run the attached Groovy script: ListUsersAndRoles.groovy Additional Information Running Scripts From the Script Console, content:...

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